Shades of Dukakis, Obama up 15 (Newsweek Poll)

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Salena Zito

[Salena Zito]

Shades of Dukakis, Obama up 15 THE PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW BY: Salena Zito

In May of 1988 after all of the Democratic primaries ended presumptive nominee Michael Dukakis enjoyed a 54 to 38 percent lead over then Ronald Reagan wing man George H.W. Bush.

H.W. went on to win in that November handily

This evening a new Newsweek poll shows Obama having a giant lead, from 51 percent to 36 percent, over McCain among registered voters across the country.

Obama got his bounce, Dukakis style.

[narses]

[Salena Zito]

thanks for the crack up

[Kirkwood]

I know a lot of liberals and I don’t know of any one of them who says they support Obama. It could be because they are all middle-age and Obama’s base is predominantly the under 30 crowd.

[ken21]

george herbert walker bush was more a

wing nut

than a wing man of ronald reagan.

there’s no similarity between the two.

[Ciexyz]

Food for thought.

[Chickenhawk Warmonger]

[tobyhill]

Newsweak is the only poll showing Obama with this kind of lead. Obama will lose the election if he sticks to his no drilling policies and people are paying over $4 a gallon.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The “news” outlets are setting the stage for November. If the Kollege Kiddie Krusaders from Obamanation don’t get their big “historical” win, they’ll be able to point to this garbage and whine about being “robbed” and their “historical” election being “stolen.”

[Numbers Guy]

Key thing from that poll was the 19-point gap in party ID. Now either the GOP is being crushed in party ID, in which case the Republicans are in trouble on all levels, or else it’s a very skewed sample. I’m guessing the latter.

[sushiman]

When are you people going to admit the experiment is over ? McCain versus Obama ? Talk about a nightmare !

[Friendofgeorge]

I find it so funny that people take all these liberal polls as if they are Gospel. I am not aware of a Conservative poll? Fox News is done by a couple democrats, one of the worst!!

NEWSWEEK polls are the least credible of all the polls. They just plain make stuff up.

The thing that is not so funny is that these phony polls quite often become reality.

Newsweek is such a joke!!!!

[romanesq]

Another Newsweak poll. They are famous for their samples consisting of 65% Democrat 20% Republican 15% confused.

Then they declare this an accurate sample.

They’ve been doing this rubbish for so long, I’m surprised we don’t all just collectively laugh.

I’ll be following Rasmussen. They are diligent and professional.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

This could be a bounce caused by Obama’s recent and first official national Ad. It was very much a typical Rat lie, but very powerful and positive and I’m sure the Democrat base and the moderates went starry-eyed over it.

[buckalfa]

GOP Party ID has declined dramaticaly since 2004. This poll is probably worthless this far out, but it may foreshadow a Democratic rout come November.

[tobyhill]

Those starry-eyes will quickly turn to angry-eyes when they actually have to fill up their gas tanks.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

And the general public is clueless. They believe every bit of it and then some. Most of them see NEWSWEEK as Gospel.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

McCain is doing O.K. in this Newsweek poll for just 20% of Republican sample. Then again, McCain is really a Democrat.

[Viking2002]

Newsweak polls generally aren't worth the energy expended to publish them. And anyhoo, being in that 'pre-coronation' phase with the conventions weeks away, the lamestream media is still in the throes of masturbatory self-congratulation over greasing the skids for their fantasy candidate. Once the last balloon falls from the rafters, they'll be faced with the prospect of either doing their jobs, or becoming the next Late Dan Rather - they all know Barak Hussein Obama couldn't pass a background check to get a contract job as an admin clerk at The National Zoo. The most repugnant part of it is that they are so self-absorbed and self-serving, they don't give a shit what he would do to this country as long they could hide under his skirt from the fallout.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Oh, but that has been squarely blamed on Bush and the Oil Companies. Haven’t you heard? The Democrats will lower prices and most of the public can hardly wait till they get into office and go after the evil Oil Company executives.

And they will take all the money back that the filthy dirty rich took from them, because Bush will no longer be there to protect them.